(PART OF BUTTERWORTHS COMPLIANCE SERIES)Conflicts of Interest and Chinese Walls has been designed to bring you thorough yet concise coverage of the law and practice relating to the regulation of conflicts of interest, and in particular the device of Chinese walls.The work takes a practical and relevant approach in its analysis of conflicts of interest affecting financial intermediaries and other professionals operating in the financial services industry, and examines the issues of ensuring international co-ordination and dealing with regulators. The work also deals with the management of conflict, Chinese walls and other in-house procedures, together with a review of the means of addressing and resolving conflict.

The 20th edition of what aims to be the leading reference on road traffic offences covers changes such as the impact of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000, the Human Rights Act 1998; new breath-testing devices; and the new Magistrates' Court Sentencing Guidelines

"Conflicts of Interest provides authoritative guidance on the law relating to conflics of interest in all its dimensions, from client conflict and personal conflict to commercial and judicial conflict.

The growth of financial conglomerates, offering a range of services hitherto unprecedented, has caused problems for regulators. While conglomerates bring with them many economic benefits (diversification of risk, economies of scope, etc), they also impose costs (systemic risk and conflict of interest abuses). This book explores ways in which regulators can ensure that the regulation imposed is sufficiently strong to eradicate these abuses, but at the same time sufficiently flexible to allow the benefits of conglomeration to be secured. The Chinese Wall-a regulatory mechanism aimed at stemming the flow of information from one department in a firm to another, and reconciling conflicts of interest more generally-is singled out for special treatment. The legal position of the device, which has become all the more important in the wake of the recent Law Commission inquiry into the relationship between the Financial Services Act 1986 (and the rules made under it) and the general law, is considered in detail. The author argues that an effective Chinese Wall will, in most cases, be legally sufficient to absolve a firm from potential liability at general law, but that there are situations where Chinese Walls are not satisfactory. Here the conglomerate will have to suffer the commercial disadvantages of being a fiduciary by adopting a different, albeit more restrictive, regulatory option.

This title examines in a practical manner the complex law and regulations that now exist in the United Kingdom, the United States of America and various other important jurisdictions concerning the concept of conflicts of interest and how the principles have been applied in the financial services industry

This book examines the law with regard to takeovers in England and Germany and the issues arising from cross-border mergers between them.

Increasingly governments worldwide are turning to the private sector to assist them in meeting their countries' infrastructure needs. The toolkit will assist governments in hiring and managing economic consultants, financial advisors and legal experts, as well as other specialists required to increase the role of the private sector in all infrastructure services. The boxed Toolkit, funded by the Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) and designed by the World Bank's Private Sector Advisory Services Department, includes a CD-ROM self-guided tour of the material, an Executive Summary for senior officials, and 3 volumes which contain detailed information on the following subjects: Volume 1: What is PPI and how can advisors help? - Module 1: Principles of selection for advisory services to support PPI - Module 2: Identifying the stages of PPI - Module 3: The role of advisors - Module 4: Defining the project and the contract - Module 5: Use of advisors for small-scale projects Volume 2: Donor agencies and the funding of PPI advisory services - Module 6: Funding agency requirements Volume 3: How to select and manage PPI advisors - Module 7: Selecting advisors - Module 8: Paying advisors for their advice - Module 9: Managing the PPI advisory services